Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 for iPhone today, creating lost work productivity accross the globe as untold numbers of fanbois eagerly update their iPhones and iPod Touches. The update brings many new enhancements to all generations of iPhones and iPod Touches and we’ll start breaking these down over the next day. However, there’s been no shortage of information about OS 3.0 since it was seeded to app developers some months ago.

So where do you start, you ask? Well, here’s just a few of the much desired enhancements that iPhone OS 3.0 brings and how to use them:

1. Spotlight searches. Similarly to Spotlight on you Mac computer the new iPhone OS features search across all of the apps on your iPhone. What’s also very nice is that it’s FAST, just like what you’re used to with Spotlight on your main computer. To try it out, unlock your device. Press the home button to make sure you’re at the home screen, now you will notice that there is another “dot” (ok, spotlight) left of the left-most screen indicator. This is the Spotlight screen. Just swipe right (move the screen left) and voila! Start your searches. Touching a result will launch that application and open what you selected. Very nice.

2. Voice Memos. iPhone OS 3.0 introduces and new application: Voice Memos. Apple’s impementation of Voice Memos is clean and concise and works great. After launching the app you have a record button and VU meter. Press record -> speak -> press stop and you’re done. Listenning to voice memos is easy, just select the menu button on the right and you’ll get a listing of all of your voice memos. Touch one to listen to it.

3. Landscape Keyboards. Finally! All of the Apple applications now support landscape keyboards for easier typing. This includes Notes, Mail App, and Messages App. This has been one of those frustrating omissions for the past two years and we are happy to see it finally arrive. To try it out, just launch any of these apps and tilt your device into landscape mode (that was probably obvious, but ah-well!).

4. Notes Syncing. Yep, no more worries about losing those notes, you can now sync them with Mail.app using iTunes on your desktop. Nice.

5. Cut, Copy & Paste. Yes, I’m sure you were as giddy as a little school girl knowing that today would bring Cut, Copy and Paste to your beloved device. So now that you have it, try it out! Copy/Paste is easy to use and works across all applications. Just touch in the text area, get the magnify and then lift your finger (or double-tap the text area). The cut/copy markers and buttons will appear. Drag the two ends to include the text you want then touch one of the actions. Now head on over to another application, repeat above steps but now touch paste. Done. Easy. Beautiful. Sigh.

6. Push Notifications. Ah, the famous push notifications have arrived. If you don’t know what these are then let me explain quickly: push notifications is Apples answer to background running applications. Since Apple does not permit apps to run in the background (ie: chat apps that would check for chats) they have come up with this system to appease developers. How it works is that if you have an app installed that uses push notification, the app developer can “push” content or messages to your device and you will be notified, regardless if the app is open or not. Eg: AP news app can push you breaking news headlines.

7. YouTube enahancements. Even YouTube saw some enhancement love today. The new YouTube app allows you to sign in to your YouTube account where you can view our uploaded videos, subscriptions, favorites, history, playlists, most recent, and top rated vids.

8. iTunes and App Store. iTunes and App Store now have more purchasing options, such as movies, TV shows and the capability to redeem codes via your device.

AppChatter.com is not a rumor site by any means, and so for the past several months we’ve had to sit back and bite our tongue as every other Apple oriented blog out there took it upon themselves to report every single rumor possible about the upcoming iPhone. Well, today was reconciliation day for all as Apple laid out the new iPhone firmware and of course, the new iPhone 3G S.

Video at 30 frames per second in VGA resolution, also auto-light and auto-focus.

iPhone 3G S is roughly 2X faster overall from iPhone 3G.

Along with the new iPhone 3G S comes a new software update for all iPhone ownsers. We previously reported about the new firmware when it was seeded to iPhone developers and now here is the final word on it:

New iPhone OS 3.0 firmware will be available world wide on June 17th.

Copy/Paste and Undo supported across all apps.

MMS is now available (ATT will not support MMS until later this summer).

iPhone OS 3.0 is free for all current iPhone users (2G and 3G) and is $9.95 for iPod Touch owners.

So to sum it up: new iPhone OS 3.0 is available on June 17th and the new iPhone 3G S will be available on June 19th. Mark your calendars and schedule your vacation days (as I turn to my “other” job to do just that). We’ll be bringing you the iPhone 3G S full pics and coverage on the 19th once we’ve been down to the Apple store to get one. Stay tuned!